301 redirects effect on SEO

[penny-slot-machines]

Hi

I'm looking to set up a 301 redirect in my .htaccess file to remove the .html at the end of urls and replace them with a slash /

So, urls that right now look like this:

xxx.penny-slot-machines.com/no-deposit-casinos.html

Will look like this:

xxx.penny-slot-machines.com/no-deposit-casinos/


The reason is that this will make uploading much much easier using the web design program that I use (Freeway Pro 5) and will save me tonnes of grief.

Q1/ Is this the right type of redirect to use in this situation?

Q2/ Will it adversely affect my SEO and the PR from inbound links, though?


Cheers in advance for any advice

[universal4]

Are you saying that no-deposit-casinos.html will no longer be named that?

And if the design software doesn't allow you to name the pages what you want, I'd say get anoth design software....

Rick
Universal4

[penny-slot-machines]

Slight mistake in that original post, it's more to do with index files, that I would like to make into files that are not index (the software needs an index file for each folder I have, but I want to take out a whole bunch of folders)

Basically, I want to change urls like:

no-deposit-casinos/index.html

into:

no-deposit-casinos.html

(so, they will no longer be an "index" file)




Basically it's a whole load of pages that were in wordpress, but are now incorporated into my site directly

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

You'll be fine...just be sure to 301 the existing file to avoid duplication and assign a dominant domain in google webmaster central.

[penny-slot-machines]

Brilliant, cheers for that, much appreciated!

[penny-slot-machines]

When you say 'dominant domain', Gary, do you mean the www bit, or is there somewhere I can say I want it to prefer files without the .index as opposed to those with it?

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

When you say 'dominant domain', Gary, do you mean the www bit, or is there somewhere I can say I want it to prefer files without the .index as opposed to those with it?

yourwebsite.com resolves to http://yourwebsite.com which is classified as a unique domain apart from http://www.yoursite.com

The www and the http://www versions are seen as separate domains and need to be canonicalised via Webmaster Central - tell it which one you want to have as your primary so you don't lose any back links.

As far as the .com/index and .com/index.html versions you need to just eliminate them all together if you don't have any back links to them - if you do, do a 301.

Cheers

[playbonuscasino1]

Would you please share the code with me you are using. As i would like to do the same thing